Software Engineering Insights

Over the past few years, industries like healthcare, finance, entertainment, and transportation have been making headlines for leveraging tech in their businesses. Now, a new generation of internet entrepreneurs is focusing on better housing by embracing tech into the highly conservative, but competitive sector, the real estate.

The number of online shoppers have crossed a mark of 1.66 billion and this number is likely to shoot up. -Statista

Despite having a large share of shoppers, online retailers are trying hard to get the customers to the cart and complete the purchase. Studies suggest that an average cart abandonment rate is 68% (which is huge). The reasons may range anywhere from price tag of the product to issues in processing payment.

In the hyper-competitive on-demand landscape, there is a constant struggle to stay ahead in the game. With speed and convenience being the major drivers of on-demand economy, companies spare no effort to deliver their services, whenever and wherever the customer demands.

Consumerization is shaping the business landscape, making enterprises take advantage of new technologies and models that originate and evolve in the consumer space. With mobile devices and apps becoming an inevitable part of consumers’ routine, they are transforming the way businesses reach out to their prospects.

Building Blockchain applications requires prowess in cryptography, coding, mathematics, and significant resources. However, with Ethereum, such complex requisites for Blockchain application development can be turned down with tools that Ethereum brings along to build and deploy decentralized applications.

The multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry is adapting to modern ways of delivering care, amongst which telehealth is the one. The idea of distributing health-related services and information through telecommunication technologies is diminishing the gap between patients and providers. By allowing both ends to make a contact, share advice, monitor health; telehealth services bring a paradigm shift in how care is delivered and received.

Google hosted its I/O Conference 2018 that brings together developers from around the globe annually for talks and have hands on learning with Google experts. CEO, Sundar Pichai along with his key executives took the stage and announced major add-ons to Google Assistant, Google Photos, Google Maps and other proprietary products.

 DevOps represents a shift in IT culture. With adoption of agile and lean practices, the software development approach ensures rapid IT service delivery.

Entrepreneurs are vigorously capitalizing on the ‘Uber for X’ model. They are covering almost every vertical that holds the potential to reinvent the conventional way of doing things or simplify consumers lives.

The idea of matching consumer demand with relevant services, which started back in 2009 with a taxi-booking app called Uber is creating a ripple-effect now. The trend of creating an Uber for X is taking (almost) every industry by storm, and logistics is not behind.